Do ideas jump out of your mind?

Then you should become a Creative Driver! You will work in an interdisciplinary team on a practical project, you will be coached individually and gain crucial contacts within the Euregio Meuse-Rhine and beyond. Test your creative drive in practice!

Anaïs Psaïla

Graphic design - illustration

"Already to share my experiencies with others, to be involved in Creative Drive adventure, a privileged moment of exchange and pluridisciplinary creation."

Andrea Mohr

Fashion design

"MARKED enabled me to work on my skills and my collection on a professional level whilst engaging with and getting valuable feedback from industry professionals. Being able to sell my collection in different shops was a first stepping stone and MARKED gave me the confidence to further pursue this path in the future".

Anouck Gauvain

"Creative Drive Project is my first team-project. I discovered that putting all our skills together in order to make a specific project is something sometimes hard but really enriching. I did like this experience."

Astrid Vyt

Product design/interior architecture

"MARKED is a good concept to keep young designers creative and motivated.
It gave the opportunity to work with other designers, getting feedback from experts and exchange thoughts. The personal support helped me to show my product (Bombasj) to a larger audience".

Axel Wagener

Production - teacher of french and german

"Creative Drive is a pot –pourri of experiences with intercultural contagion."

Berry Godec

"For me, one of the highlights of the Creative Drive project was meeting new creative people, with whom I'm most probably going to collaborate more often in the future. Besides the project being a great succes of course!"

Caroline Das & Kim Nivelle

Accessory design / architecture

"MARKED was the perfect opportunity to start a mutual ambition: designing objects which we would describe as "100% Kim&Caroline". Through all the beautiful encounters we learned what is most important to hit the road: Go for it and focus, focus, FOCUS".

Christian Kayser

Product design

"CD is the opportunity to prove that creatives can apply their capabilities on other branches in order to create new, interesting concepts. For me, it is an experience where I was able to develope my creativity in a new direction."

Coraline Perin

"Thanks to Creative Drive, I could surprise myself and discover new creative fields of expression."

David Meckelburg

European Studies & Media Culture

"In order to be successfull in the upcoming decades, the cooperation with neighbour cities in the Euregio might prove to be vital for Heerlen."

Denise Gielen

Sculptural design / architecture

"I have learned from the sessions MARKED to extend my own limits as a designer, and this on both practical and creative level. It became possible to propose my objects to a larger audience by the intensive and professional approach of this guidance".

Dik Scheepers

Product design

"Creative Drive is a way to learn new things and has the potential to open doors."

Dorinda Bielen

Fashion design

"MARKED is a great opportunity to getting started ..."

Edoardo Ripani

stage actor

"Creative Drive is the torch passing between the EUREGIO’s manufacturing industry and the creative industry. Individual and group work - to always find the best solution. It´s a starting point for invading creatively the invisible cities of our existence."

Gilberte Claes

Product design / interior architecture

"Creative Drive, an interesting platform to confront creativity with business".

Giulia Cantaluppi

History of art - project management

"I like to describe myself as a European nomad. In my view, cities are laboratories of creativity where citizens are the main actors. Creative Drive is for me a good opportunity to investigate the subject of art in public space from another point of view."

Guus Prevoo

"Gather a group of driven people and their energy will bring any given challenge to a great outcome! This is what the Creative Drive project 'Paraphrasing Babel' has shown me once again."

Katrien Matthys

Katrine Bengtsson

"Creative Drive gave me the opportunity to work out ideas in practice which I have been studying in theory for many years, investigating from different angles within an interdisciplinary team. The project was great for enhancing teamwork skills and getting a feel for commissioned projects."

Laura Bergans

Graphic design

"MARKED enabled me to really publish my (first) COLORING book. Their support gave me the courage to take this step.They brought us in contact with the right advisors".

Lory Di Donato

scenographer

"Surpassing oneself and wonderful encounters. A beautiful moment of life."

Til Hennen

Vanessa Foladore

Plastic arts

"Creative Drive is both a very mobile system and a process accelerator, a producer of creativity. It components are multicultural and crossdisciplinary : producers, artists, historians, thinkers, technicians, specialists working together on innovating projects."

Xavier Leton

Writing –film edition

"Encourage the reader to participate in the production of as work as full time actor and critic of the creative process."

Yvette Bosch

"Working in an interdisciplinary group and trying to come up with a concrete product proved to be very inspiring, I've really learned a great deal."

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